- Discussion at County Commission on Leavitt Road in Mona Pole Canyon
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MONA POLE CANYON ROAD • David Leavitt talkes with the Juab County Commission about the new road he has built in Mona Pole Canyon. Leavitt wants to trade property with the County.
By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
Juab County is getting a road for the road they are giving up.
Of course that depends on whether or not they actually do give it up.
David Leavitt has proposed that he deed the county a road, Mona Pole, for a crooked piece of the Mona Pole road that he is suggesting the county allow him to use as part of his subdivision.
“I think the county planning commission should at least see the proposal,” said Glenn Greenhalgh, county planning commission director.
“What I have here is a deed for the ‘new’ Mona Pole road from the top of my property to the bottom of my property,” said David Leavitt, property developer.
He said he would return to the commission sometime before June, or after the snow had melted, with a new plat map for the property he owns which was approved by the county planning commission for a recreational subdivision.
“I am deeding the new road to the county,” he said. “This gives the county ownership to a road and they have not had ownership of Mona Pole before this time.”
The county will agree, if the deed is accepted and the exchange made, to no longer claim any other road interest on the property.
“We want it understood that all those who want to go up Mona Pole road will be able to do so,” said Val Jones, commission chairman. “We are not going to leave those interested in going up the canyon without a road.”
“The public will still have access,” said Jared Eldridge, county attorney.
A new road, which has already been built by Leavitt, will replace the old road. All that is being proposed, said Jones, is that the county will get the newly built, straight road in exchange for the old and crooked road.
“We will work on road 390 with the Forest Service,” said Leavitt.
“It is not a 2477 road so we can’t address that road,” said LuWayne Walker, commissioner.
Leavitt said he would file an amended plat map with the county and would then return to the commission.
He was a bit concerned about approaching the planning commission once again. He did not want to start the process all over again because he already had approval for the subdivision he was building.
“You do need the review of the planning commission,” said Greenhalgh. “We do need to follow that process under the new state law that requires a review. It is, I believe, the proper process.”
Leavitt said he was making the change in the deed and in the plat map to reflect the concerns of some who attended a public hearing where the proposal was explained.
The concern had been that Leavitt was not deeding the road from the property line to property line and the road might in the future be fenced. Now that will not be even a remote possibility.
“The county will own the road from one end of my property to the other,” he said.
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